In the 1940s, nearly every Seattle neighborhood had a movie theater. Today, only a select few still operate movie houses. But many of the buildings remain as homes for other businesses. In the gallery below, we take a now-and-then look back at Seattle movie houses with pictures from the seattlepi.com archive, the state and city […]
[Read More]

Attention, annoying people who shout out the answers to “Jeopardy” trivia clues: This is your chance to take on the machine. I think you know what machine I’m talking about – the machine that recently obliterated Seattle’s trivia champion Ken Jennings in what might be humanity’s biggest setback since the Toba super-eruption. That’s right, Watson […]
[Read More]

Fashion designer Hedi Slimane made the Internet hum earlier this year, but not about any of his clothing designs. It was about a series of photos he took of Frances Bean Cobain, the daughter of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain and Hole’s Courtney Love.

The pictures show Cobain at 18, just months after she inherited her late father’s fortune. The dark-haired, tattooed young woman seemed a fitting legacy for Kurt Cobain, arguable Seattle’s best-known icon of grunge rock.

The photos marked a turning point in Slimane’s reputation. Notoriously reclusive (he usually declines to talk to press, or to authorize the publication of the Cobain photos), Slimane reemerged as a photographer.

Just what the heck is this? Is it really an 8-pound slab of pork molded into the shape of a piglet? Why yes, yes it is. And it’s being sold by none other than our state’s newest hard-liquor distributor, Costco. According to a user photo on The Consumerist, the Kirkland-based wholesaler is selling this product […]
[Read More]

The city started out with four contestants on the ninth season of the Bravo TV show “Top Chef.” Two episodes into the season, there are none.

The first three met their match (rabbit, soup and ham, apparently) in the first episode. And Wednesday night, 25-year-old Ashley Villaluz got the boot for making a not-tasty-enough plate of Filipino oxtail.

What does one do with all those post-election campaign signs planted in medians and yards around our city the day after we exercise our democracy? Greek students at the University of Washington have a tradition that continued today as hundreds of signs gathered from around Seattle were planted in the yard of the Kappa Kappa […]
[Read More]